Is English capable [caypubpull] of sustaining demagoguery? Yes, if it is no longer English.

(I.e. I hope not!)

I have this image of Orwell picturing pubescent youths of Ingsoc trawling through the tedious, technical, sedately sterile section C of the Newspeak dictionary for descriptions of sexcrime.

(I previously said something about Dickens; there ( Read more... )